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Beneath the Bleeding

Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Series, Book 5

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Beneath the Bleeding

By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Then a bomb explodes in the football stadium, causing massive casualties - and another man dies from poisoning. Is there a link between the cases? What are the motives for these crimes? The clock is ticking, and the death toll keeps rising....

©2007 Val McDermid (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Mystery Psychological Sports Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

Critic Reviews

"The queen of British crime.... McDermid is a consummate plotter so there are pleasing twists and turns in this first-rate story." ( Observer)
"The Queen of serial killers in this country keeps her end up...few can scoop Val on throat-clutching narrative.... Marvellous." ( Daily Mail)
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another brilliant book and reading can never get enough. Val McDermid strikes again. love it !

beneath the Bleeding

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can't beat a good Val.McDermid novel, this one not her finest story line but none the less a definite great listen!

Love Val

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Another intriguing story bty this author. I had trounle putting it down when life got in the way

Brilliant as always!

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Saul Reichlin is totally the wrong reader for this book. His odd, staccato delivery and bad accents make the characters come across as naive – as though the reader has entered a child's world peopled with cardboard cutouts. He totally murders the story pun intended, and he kills the words of Val McDermid, whose gritty modern urban world and fully rounded eccentric characters, suddenly sound like half developed stereotypes whose dialogue comes from an episode of Dora the Explorer.

WRONG READER

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Have always been a Val McDermid fan but struggled with the narration on this one. The accents were terrible and just did not do the book justice. Persevered with it as I had paid for it, but not great experience! Ending was also too abrupt.

Bad narration

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I have read most of this series multiple times, but this story line could not hold my focus and lacked the grit and tension of Val's usual pen style.

Boring

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